Wappingers Falls dad, 30, gets prison for assaulting infant twins

5:37 AM,
Apr. 30, 2013

Andrew Kovalsky

Written by

Roberto Cruz
Poughkeepsie Journal

An order of protection, on top of a 21-year prison sentence, could keep a Wappingers Falls man who admitted to physically abusing his infant twins away from them until at least 2042.

Andrew Kovalsky, 30, declined to address the court on his own behalf Monday before he received the maximum sentence of 21 years in prison for breaking bones in his infant son and daughter, who were 4 weeks old at the time. Standing before Judge Stephen Greller in Dutchess County Court, Kovalsky shook his head and mumbled as he was told his punishment.

In addition to prison time and the order of protection barring him ...